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Wac  wacke,, ‘rock-flint, block of stone projecting from the ground,’ *wacko- (from the base waggo), , ‘pebble, flint.’ Further cognates are wanting.  ,, ‘to shake, rock, totter,’ from the late  wackeln (and also wacken). An intensive form from wagen,  wagôn, ‘to move, totter, shake’;   twaggelen, ‘to shake,’  wagian, also  to wag (from  *waggian). These cognates are certainly more closely related to  ( root weg, from the Aryan root wē̆gh) than to the cognates of. ',, ‘valiant, gallant, honest,’ from wacker (wacher),  wacchar (wahhhar), , ‘cheerful, lively, awake’;   wakker, ‘awake, awakened, cheerful, powerful,’  wacor, ‘awake,’  wakr, ‘stirring, awake.’ An old derivative to  vigra, ‘powerful, active’) from the  root wak, ‘to be stirring, brisk’ (see );  also .  ', , ‘calf’ (of the leg), from the   wade,  (used chiefly in the ),  wado, ;  the   wade.  vǫðve, , ‘muscle,’ shows that the more general meaning was ‘muscle’;  ado ( wadun) is based on  waþwo, . There are no cognates in the non- languages.   , , ‘weapon,’ from the   waffen, wâfen,  waffan, wâfan, , ‘weapon, sword, armour’; corresponding to  wépna,  , ‘weapons,’  wœ̂pn,  weapon,  wapen.  also .  wêpno- (wapono-) assumes a  wêbono- (wobono-); its connection with the   ὅπλον ( ‘utensil’) is conceivable by assuming a double root, wop, wob. Whether this root is identical with the root vap, ‘to scatter, sow,’ in which case ‘missile’ would be the primary meaning of, is uncertain.   ,, ‘waffle, wafer,’ only, properly a  word;   wafel (hence  waffle), The  was so called from its resemblance to the honeycomb, for the  term gaufre signifies both ‘honeycomb’ and ‘waffle’   wafer and.   ,, ‘balance,’ from wâdge,  wâga, , ‘balance, weighing-machine’ (allied to ). Corresponding to wâga,  waag,  wœ̂g (whence   to weigh),  vâg,, ‘balance.’ Allied to the  root weg in.   ,, ‘vehicle, carriage, waggon,’ from the  wagen,  wagan, ; corresponding to the   wagen,  wœgn,  wain,  vagn, ‘waggon.’ Based on the  root wëg (see ); from the corresponding Aryan root wëgh, wogh, ‘to drag, drive,’ are derived  ἄχος,  vehiculum,  fén, ‘waggon.’ The Aryan words  and  show that vehicles were used in primitive times; for the Aryan root wegh, ‘to drag, to move on,’ see. —   ,, ‘cartwright’ from wagener, ‘cartwright, driver, carrier,’  waganâri, ‘cartwright’; hence the proper name.  ,, ‘to venture, risk,’ fro wâgen,  , ‘to hazard, venture,’  ‘to put in the scales’  wâge, , ‘balance,’ also means ‘uncertain result’; the word is unknown to  in this sense.  ,, ‘to weigh,’ from wëgen; identical with. <section end="wägen" /> <section begin="Wahl" /> ,, ‘choice, election,’ from the  wal,  wala, ; to this is allied  , ‘to choose,’ from the   węln, węllen,  węllen (from *waljan),. val,, ‘choice,’ with velja, ‘to select.’ Allied to the Aryan root wel, ‘to wish,’ appearing in. <section end="Wahl" /> <section begin="Wahlstatt" /> ', ',, ‘field of battle,’ from the  walstat, ;  and  wal, , , and , has also the same meaning. The corresponding wœl signifies ‘those left on the battlefield,’ also ‘corpse’ (to which wœlstôw, ‘place of combat,’ is allied);   valr, ‘the corpses on the battlefield,’ valfǫđr ( ‘father of the dead’). It is impossible to recognise in this word a derivative of the root of, as if it meant ‘the chosen favourites of the god of war, who were led away by the Valkyres.’ It is rather based on a root wăl, ‘destruction,’ which appears also in  wuol, ‘defeat,’  wôl, ‘plague, pestilence’; allied to ?. —

,, ‘Valkyre,’ formed from valkyrja ( wœlcyrie), ,  ‘a divine maiden who makes a selection of the slain on the field of battle.’ See. <section end="Wahlstatt" /> <section begin="Wahn" /> , ‘illusion, delusion,’ from  and  wân,, ‘uncertain, unfounded opinion, supposition, belief, hoping,<section end="Wahn" />